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H. E. SMITH.

IRONING MACHINE.

No. 457,734. Patented Aug. 11, 1891.

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' sufliciently to allow the goods to be passed rollers the clothes orgoods are carried over UNITED STATES PATE T OFFICE.

HAMILTON E. SMITH, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

IRONING-MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No.457,734, dated August11, 1891.

Application filed December 11, 1 8 90.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HAMILTON E. SMITH, a citizen of the United States,residing at New York, in the county and State of New York, have inventednew and usefulImprovements in Ironing-Machines, of which the followingis a specification.

This invention relates to an ironing-machine, the peculiar constructionof which is pointed out in the following specification and claims, andillustrated in the'accompanying drawings, in which I Figure 1 representsa plan or top view with parts broken away. Fig. 2 is a longitudinalvertical section along line 00 m, Fig. 1.

In the drawings, the letter A designates a frame which. supports thebearings for a series of rollers B C D E, and in said frame is secured ahot-air box G, which is covered at the top, as will be presentlyexplained. In the interior of the box G are situated theheating-chambers I J K L, which are connected to each other by the pipesh and supplied with steam or other heating medium through the pipe 2. Apipe j, which connects with the several heating-chambers, serves to drawoff the condensed water if steam is used as a heating medium. Theheating-chambers are situated directly beneath the rollers B O D E, andtheir tops are solid, while the spaces between the heating-chambers areoccupied by perforated plates M N O. The rollers B O D E are geared witheach other and with the driving-shaft P, so that a positive motion isimparted to them from the driving-shaft.

The clothes to be ironed are taken from a basket Q, and in order to beable to introduce the same conveniently between the roller B and the topof the first heating-chamber I the roller Bis raised up by means of atreadle under the roller B. By the action of the the heating-chambersand over the perforated plates M N O, and in being carried over theperforated plates they are dried by'the dry hot air and are polishedwhile in their passage over the solid tops of the heated chambers, andby this alternate drying and polishing the best results are obtained andthe labor and expense of previous drying of the clothes can be dispensedwith. After the Serial No. 374,347. (No model.)

clothes have been carried over the last heating-chamber they pass upon atable T in a condition fit to be folded and put away.

The supply of fresh air for the hot-air box G is obtained through theopenings 8 in the bottom of the box, and by providing said openings withvalves the inflow of air into the box can be regulated as desired.

The hearings of the roller B are formed in arms a a, which extend from arock-shaft b. This rock-shaft has its bearings in standards 0, whichrise from the frame A, and it connects by arms (1, rods e, andleversfwith the cross-bar g, so that when this cross-bar is depressedthe roller B is raised. The roller B need not be raised so high as tolift it out of mesh with its driving-gear; but if said roller should beraised to an excessive height, such excessive rise is of no moment,since on the descent of the roller it will again come into mesh with itsdriving-gear.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

l.'The combination of a series of rollers B C D E, the hot-air box G,and the heatingchambers situated in said box, substantially asdescribed.

2. The combination of a series of rollers B O D E, the hot-air box G,the heating-chambers situated in said box directly beneath the rollers BO D E, and the perforated plates M N 0 intermediate between theheating-chambers, substantially as described.

3. The combination, with aseries of rollers B O D E, of a series ofheating-chambers I J K L,one beneath each of the rollers,connecting-pipes h between the heating-chambers, and perforated plates MN O, substantially as described.

4. The combination, with a series of rollers B O D E, of the hot-air boxG, having inlets s, the heating-chambers in said box, and the perforatedplates or covers M N O for the box, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in the presence of twosubscribing witnesses.

HAMILTON E. SMITH.

it-n esses:

W. C. HAUFF, E. F. KASTENHUBER.

